Health Care Professional Adherence to Breast Cancer Management Guidelines in Nigeria.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In Nigeria, 80% of breast cancer is diagnosed at an advanced stage, when clinical management is complex and necessitates multidisciplinary collaboration. The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health promotes multidisciplinary tumor board (MDT) discussions and endorses the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Harmonized Guidelines for Sub-Saharan Africa (Harmonized Guidelines) to standardize breast cancer care, but the extent of their clinical utilization is not well understood.

Objective

To identify barriers to and facilitators of the standardization of breast cancer care in Nigeria as reflected by awareness and consultation of resource-adapted guidelines.

Design, setting, and participants

For this survey study, health care professionals (HCPs) involved in brea

SUBMITTER: Romanoff A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822546 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature